Send us your synonyms!

Paul set the Guiness World Record this time around, but we’re gearing up to break it again. And with your help! There must be phrases that we’ve left out, haven’t heard of, or just simply didn’t have time to find. Is your favorite drunken synonym missing from this collection? Scroll to the bottom of the page to leave your word or phrase in the reply box, along with an explanation of where they came from and how they are used, and you’ll be included in our second edition of Drunk: the Definitive Drinker’s Dictionary. Please see submission rules in the right sidebar for more details.

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33 Responses to “Send us your synonyms!”

My personal favourite is ‘munted’. Which I believe is an amalgamation of 2 other slang phrases. The first being ‘mullered'(Broken, smashed or beaten up to the point of being visibly altered, unusable or non-functional) and the highly offensive ‘cu*ted’.

Here is the definition from Urban Dictionary:

To have intoxicated yourself with alcohol and/or chemicals to such point where respectable levels of social and/or physical functioning become problematic; where you are also (quite possibly)chewing a lot. In short, a state of complete and utter trashedness! ‘Bert was so munted he couldn’t barely string a sentence together, and was chewing his face off like a gurning tw*t’

I’ve been reading “The Tempest,” and Act 2, Scene 2, has a few synonyms for drinking. There’s “kiss the book” (line 135 in my copy), which means to take a drink. (That probably wouldn’t fit this site, but I thought it was worth a mention.) And Stephano, who’s been drinking, tells Trinculo, “My stomach is not constant” (lines 118-119 in my copy), which could allude to his drunk state.

An Irish friend of mine that I worked with in Japan always described it as being ‘shambolic’ or ‘a shambles’ – this would often extend to the next day, when we would show up to work in the same suits we wore yesterday, drinking Japanese vitamin drinks and downing greasy burgers to stave off the hangover (which he referred to as “the grease release”)

Growing up in the South (Atlanta), you might be “lit”, knee-walkin’ drunk, on your a–, drunk as a skunk, fallin’ down drunk, and…yeah…3 sheets to the wind, seein’ double or feelin’ no pain. But in L.A. now, ploughed, one too many, etc.

As all readers of the Old Testement remember, Genesis, Chapter 6 tells how Noah celebrated landfall by going ashore, planting a vineyard, making wine, getting bombed out of his coconut, and… well, the rest of the story is not discussed in Sunday School. Noah would be proud to know that a Google.com search turns up 10,300 citations of “Drunk as Noah”.

I dropped into the library to read the London Spectator and find a book or two. My eye fell upon Charlatan, by Brock Pope, concerning Dr. J. R. Brinkley of goat-gland fame — the guy who convinced various rubes (and some rather smart people as well) that having goat testicles sewn into their scrotum would work the same miracles as supposedly does Viagra.

In one section, Brock does a long riff on patent medicines and their high alcohol contents — Paine’s Celery Compound, 21 percent; Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, 44.3 percent. Then he writes, “The bestselling of the bunch was Peruna, the most prominent proprietary nostrum in he country, manufactured by a Dr. S. B. Hartman of Cincinnati. Favored by bridge-playing old ladies and other discreet alcoholics, it had spawned the term PERUNA DRUNK and had been banned from reservations by the Bureau of Indian affairs.” (pp. 28-29, published in 2008 by Crown.)

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